According to Wikipedia, hip pop is a synonyme for pop rap.
And honestly, that is actually true.
Yeah, like many of us said, it's what killed true hip hop in the early 2000's.
(In)Famous artists:
Jay-Z (after his first three albums)
Nelly
Ludacris
Pitbull
Flo Rida
What I think:
No. I rather stick with real hip hop such as Common, Gang Starr,, Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang.
And yes, you can say Grandmaster made a pop rap song with White Lines, but that is from a different era.
The new jack swing in the late 80's and early 90's from artists such Mack Morrison, Michael Jackson and En Vogue isn't pop rap either.
Hip Pop aka Pop Rap is cheap Top 40 rap
On the spot created hip hop lyrics like freestyle rapping, but using unique creative words precicely interwoven in a mathematiclly complex rythm pattern making it impossible to immitate without a deep knowledge of language, and complex rythmic lyrical compositions.
Sick! That dude just killed it, gassed it, and blew the club up with those hip-libs
NO THATS THE THING IM SENSITIVE ABOUT
"hahaha hahaha look at that high waisted man, hes got feminine hips"
-john mulaney
The removal of an airplane traveler from a security line and being placed in a plastic holding cage for a long time because the alarm was set off by the traveler's hip implant. This occurs regardless of any medical documentation showing the presence of the hip implant and results in long delays and intensive body searches.
"Hey, what took you so long to get to the gate for the flight." " I was the object of hip profiling and was patted down for 10 minutes"
A person of business at the cutting edge of current trends and fads
Geez Laura, that Pharmacy is Hip as Shit! 💣💥